Bengaluru: ‘Acquaintance’ gets co-worker abducted, tries to rape her in car: His pepper spray
saved her from a Nirbhaya-like plot

In a really twisted case, a man went to great lengths to get his co-worker to sleep with him. He paid money to three abductors to get her to him, then drove her to a desolate spot in his car; and when she resisted his attempts to sexually assault her, he whipped out a pepper spray to subdue. Thankfully for the 18-year-old girl, the moron did not know that pepper spray makes the air pungent making it difficult to breathe; the perpetrator had to open th e door of the car which gave the woman an opportunity to escape.

The girl (let’s call her Bhavya) studies at a private college in Bengaluru. On Wednesday, she got off a BMTC bus at Dasarahalli and was walking towards her house when a car pulled up beside her. Bhavya thought the driver was perhaps looking for a place to park and stepped aside; one of the car’s occupants stepped out, put a handkerchief on her mouth and pulled her inside. Bhavya later told the police that it was a white-coloured car but she doesn’t remember the make of the vehicle.

Bhavya got off a BMTC bus at Dasarahalli; as soon as she got down, three men pulled her into a white car; at Tumakuru Road, the car was intercepted by her former co-worker Sachin

The car then sped away towards Tumakuru Road side of NICE Road. Here the car was intercepted by a red Swift (registration number KA-03-AF-5963). Bhavya’s joy knew no bounds when she saw a former co-worker Sachin get out of the red car and accost the kidnappers. She pleaded with him to help her. But Bhavya’s happiness was short-lived; Sachin informed her that it was he who had got her abducted and with the help of the three abductors transferred her into his car. Sachin then drove towards Kunigal bypass on Tumakuru Road. He parked the car at a desolate spot and the three abductors then got off.

He forced her to sit in his car...

Sachin then tried to get physical with Bhavya. “He told me he loved me. When I refused his proposal, he started touching me inappropriately,” Bhavya told the police.

He sprayed pepper spray when she resisted his attempts to rape her; when the air was thick with the chemical, Bhavya managed to escape and an auto-rickshaw driver dropped her home

When all else failed, Sachin pulled out a pepper spray and sprayed it on Bhavya’s face in order to subdue her. But the chemical in the spray made it difficult for Sachin to breathe too. He was forced to open the door of the car to let some fresh air in.

“As soon as he opened the door, I thought this was the right time for me to jump out and escape. My eyes and face were burning but I kept running and sought help from passersby,” Bhavya wrote in her complaint.

He told me he loved me. When I refused his proposal, he started touching me inappropriately and tried to molest me

Bhavya in her complaint

An auto-rickshaw driver noticed Bhavya and stopped to check on her. Fearing arrest, Sachin drove away. The auto driver gave her some water and brought her to Nelamangala; he also helped her to call her mother from his number. Bhavya’s mother and her brother rushed to Nelamangala and took her home.

After she narrated the incident, they took her to the police station and filed a complaint. Bagalagunte police have registered the case under sections of kidnap, outraging the modesty of a woman and wrongful restraint. They are now looking for Sachin.

Thanks to the pepper spray, Bhavya was perhaps spared Nirbhaya’s fate. On December 16, 2013, a young woman and her friend boarded a bus around 7 pm in Delhi’s Munirka. The occupants of the bus gang-raped the girl -- one of them was so depraved that he used a rod and pulled out her intestines. The Times of India later named the girl Nirbhaya (fearless; laws forbid newspapers from identifying victims of sexual assault) for the way she fought on for her life. She succumbed to injuries at a hospital in Singapore where the government had flown her for better treatment. After the horrific incident that shook the nation’s consciousness, different, stricter laws were drawn up for such perpertrators.

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